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Thus smart Packard jumped the gun on other automen, got U.S. Navy orders for marine engines back in 1939, British orders for Rolls-Royce aircraft engines a year later. Soon other independents were in the grab bag too. Nash now makes airplane propellers and engine parts, will soon turn out giant flying boats way down in New Orleans; Hudson, new Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns and Naval ordnance goods; Studebaker, trucks and aircraft engines; Willys, jeeps and other items. The independents have more than $1,000,000,000 in war orders...
...William Knudsen, who had long agreed with U.S. automobile companies that they were unable to convert more than 15% of their plant to war production, had always suggested slow, costly building of new plants. Lord Beaverbrook, who had been told the same thing by British automen, told Knudsen that auto-plant conversion in Britain...
There will soon be an OPA ceiling on new passenger car prices. That was the upshot of a breezy meeting held this week between OPA's Cyrus McCormick and 81 important auto dealers. But the automen were not worried. The ceiling formulas proposed were satisfactory, and nothing was said about used cars...
...possible this week that the oilmen and the automen might not comply. This would be the first direct challenge of the authority behind Henderson's price ceilings, which he himself describes as mere "jawbone control." If his jawbone ceases to control, Henderson will go to Congress, ask for specific price legislation, expects...
...volume orders on the machine-tool market in February, Niles-Bement-Pond (one of the biggest of the lot) could call a mere $9,000,000 backlog the biggest in its history. Most toolmakers resisted defense-expansion pressure as much as they could, wanted instead to ration their customers. Automen, normally the biggest machine-tool customers, began to worry. So did the British, who got about a fifth of the industry's 1940 production...